Hilda Greenhough Poet Rhyme

New York City Rats

Rotting eggs, fish, moldy pasta, and meat
Mixed with the odor of damp rodent fur.
The garbage in bags is lining the street.
New York  is a city beyond compare.

The food that's thrown feeds a population,
Not for people, but for rats everywhere.
Well-fed and moving are these three million
Who run down sidewalks without any care.

The mayor has found a good solution-
Locked trash cans that keep the rodents from play.
When hunger pangs start in great profusion, 
I want to make sure I am far away.

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Valsa George September 15, 2024 at 5:06 AM This is a growing menace in most of the cities. Trash thrown here and there and garbage piled up in street corners allow rodents like rat to multiply. No ruler or authority can do much about it until each citizen becomes a little more conscious of preserving his surroundings, clean and neat. A great poem Hilda. Hilda Greenhough September 15, 2024 at 1:54 PM Thank you.

Gershon Wolf January 27, 2024 at 8:29 PM Rats, ancestors of 'Democ-rats.' So much for the 'wonders of evolution.' (Did I just write that? lol.) Anyway, once stayed in Greenwich Village for a few days in 1971. At night I saw a rat as big as a dog. AS BIG AS A DOG. I was gone the next morning. ~ As the World Turns Hilda Greenhough January 27, 2024 at 8:38 PM I liked your comment. I think they call those rats, Norwegian rats They jumped ship many years ago. I think they gave them citizenship.

Ink Empress December 8, 2023 at 10:58 AM Ive had some really brutal experiences with rats in the past. I am so scared of them and they are such cunning ones. What a brilliant write this is. You write on so many various subjects in such eloquence. Pleasure always reading your work. Sending you light always Hilda Greenhough December 8, 2023 at 11:16 AM Thank you. Rats are very smart. They seem to be good mothers, however, hygiene is their problem. I realize they do bite, as do most animals. Handle with care.

Karen Jones September 24, 2023 at 12:09 PM I can not imagine this! I live in the south...in Carolina. I really am spoiled to trees clean streets and not much trash. Thanks for sharing, Karen Jones November 17, 2023 at 11:31 PM Wow didn't know you live in Utah. Hilda Greenhough September 25, 2023 at 11:22 AM I don't live in New York, but even here in Utah, we have rats. The difference is that we more easily control our (adorable) pack rats.